Whilst Google had complained about a “sophisticated cyber attack originating from China” in January this year, China accused Google of violating a “written promise” it made when entering the market to abide by laws requiring it to filter its search service.

In the interim, Google’s chief legal officer, David Drummond, said that Chinese users will be forwarded to “uncensored search” from Google.com.hk, as a sensible solution to the challenges they have faced. It’s entirely legal and will meaningfully increase access to information for people in China.

Google sent me a pleasant surprise early this week – I am welcomed to preview Google Wave.

As you know, this only opens out to invited guest only, so I am pretty delighted to have received this. In addition, I am allowed to invite 8 other people. In return, I asked readers to leave a comment on the page (link above).

So far, it looks impressive – very much useful for project management and collaboration. I’ll continue to preview it for sure.

I guess it is nothing new when China blocks several International websites, including the recent uproar about Google being “firewalled” by China.

Another social networking site, which I strongly believe is under scrutiny, is also blocked in China – that is Twitter. Knowing that Twitter was hit by DoS during the past weeks, but it should have remained operation since then. However, from what I heard, Twitter is completely inaccessible in China. I guess, Twitter network is missing out a big piece of Internet pie.